Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the…

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the…

— John Lennon

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known…

— Joseph Stalin

In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you…

— McKenzie Wark

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of…

— Joseph Stalin

It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or…

— George Blake

Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to…

— Harry Magdoff

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what…

— Anonymous

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

— Robert Gilpin

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little…

— Jung Chang

In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place, but at…

— Noam Chomsky

“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour declared: in…

— Rosa Luxemburg

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…

— Karl Marx

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.…

— William Henry Pickering